Faculty

Visiting Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
Visiting Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Professor Daniel Bausch, MD, MPH&TM, FASTMH, is an internationally recognized leader in global health research, education, and programme implementation. He is trained in internal medicine, infectious diseases, tropical medicine, and public health. Professor Bausch specializes in the control of emerging tropical diseases, with over 25 years’ experience in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Asia combating viruses such as Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, hantavirus, and SARS coronaviruses.

He currently holds appointments as a Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore as well as at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Previously he held leadership positions as the Senior Advisor for Global Health Security at FIND (Geneva, Switzerland), Director of the United Kingdom Public Health Rapid Support Team (London, UK), Technical Lead of the Epidemic Clinical Management Team at the World Health Organisation (Geneva, Switzerland), Chief of the Virology and Emerging Infections Department at U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (Lima, Peru), Professor at Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (New Orleans, USA), and Medical Officer at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, USA). He is a past President and Scientific Program Chair of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Professor Bausch places a strong emphasis on capacity development in all his projects and has a keen interest in the role of the scientist in promoting health and human rights, striving to ensure that biomedical advances reach and translate to better health for those most in need. He is fluent in English, French and Spanish.